# 医療法 / Medical Care Act — 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) - Law: 医療法 (Medical Care Act), 昭和二十三年法律第二百五号 - English title "Medical Care Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第三条 (Supplementary Provisions, Article 3) — address `suppl-4121-141/art-3` - Text in force since: 2026-10-01 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4121-141/art-3 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4121-141/art-3 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第三条 suppl-4121-141/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4121-141/art-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4121-141/art-3 **第一項** この法律の施行の際現に旧医療法第七条第一項の許可を受けて病院を開設している者（旧その他の病床を有する者を除く。）は、当該者が開設する病院の病床であって同条第二項に規定する精神病床、感染症病床又は結核病床であるものについて、それぞれ新医療法第七条第二項第一号から第三号までに規定する精神病床、感染症病床又は結核病床として同条第二項の許可を受けたものとみなす。 suppl-4121-141/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4121-141/art-3/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4121-141/art-3/par-1 A person who, at the time this Act comes into effect, has established a hospital having obtained the permission under Article 7, paragraph (1) of the Former Medical Care Act (excluding a person who has former other beds) is deemed to have obtained, for those hospital beds of the hospital established by that person that are psychiatric hospital beds, infectious disease hospital beds or tuberculosis hospital beds prescribed in paragraph (2) of that Article, the permission under paragraph (2) of that Article as psychiatric hospital beds, infectious disease hospital beds or tuberculosis hospital beds prescribed in Article 7, paragraph (2), items (i) through (iii) of the New Medical Care Act, respectively. machine translation, not official --- ## Cites - suppl-4121-141/art-3/par-1: 新医療法第七条第二項第一号から第三号まで → 医療法 第七条第二項第一号 (Article 7, paragraph (2), item (i)), art-7/par-2/item-1 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-7/par-2/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7/par-2/item-1 - suppl-4121-141/art-3/par-1: 新医療法第七条第二項第一号から第三号まで → 医療法 第七条第二項第二号 (Article 7, paragraph (2), item (ii)), art-7/par-2/item-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-7/par-2/item-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7/par-2/item-2 - suppl-4121-141/art-3/par-1: 新医療法第七条第二項第一号から第三号まで → 医療法 第七条第二項第三号 (Article 7, paragraph (2), item (iii)), art-7/par-2/item-3 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-7/par-2/item-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7/par-2/item-3 - suppl-4121-141/art-3/par-1: 同条第二項 → 医療法 第七条第二項 (Article 7, paragraph (2)), art-7/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/art-7/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/art-7/par-2 ## Cited by 1 provision cites this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 医療法 附則第十五条第一項（その他の経過措置の政令への委任） — https://japanlaw.org/en/medical-care-act/suppl-4121-141/art-15/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/323AC0000000205/suppl-4121-141/art-15/par-1 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 医療法 — the text in force from 2026-10-01 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/323AC0000000205/20261001_507AC0000000087), retrieved 2026-10-19 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Medical Care Act — Ministry of Justice translation (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4006/tb), retrieved 2026-10-19 - claude-sonnet-5-5 — Machine translation, batch medical-care-act-20261019T151250-022, translated 2026-10-20 - This site's parser, version 210 — 医療法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-10-19